Medicine: Frozen Cancers

Young Dr. Temple Sedgwick Fay, head of the neurology department at
Philadelphia's Temple University, tackles his medical problems with
humor as well as imagination and boldness. Six years ago, while working
on a cure for epilepsy by dehydration and exercise (TIME, May 22), he
spent his spare time writing a best-seller on the comic adventures of
an intern, entitled My First Baby. There he confessed that his greatest
joy was clanging ambulance bells in the middle of the night.

Last week, Dr. Fay turned up at the St. Louis meeting of the American
Medical Association with a method of relieving the searing...